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RyanAir stays profitable by using a well-understood bait-and-switch marketing method. Examples include using the phrase "London Luton" in its communication. If I was a German pilot in WW2 and I got told to go photo London but I came back with a photo of Luton I think people would get upset with me. Londo and Luton airports are an hour apart by train. Then there is Avalon (friends don't let friends fly DeathStar) Another example RyanAir is famous for is their bag check policy which changes every 7 weeks in order to keep catching people out. Many complaints have arisen where UK travellers have bought an airfare under one checked bag policy and had it changed (then brutally enforced) on the return leg of their trip. Plus the complaints feed the news cycle invariably. This is just free advertising for Mister O'Leary. If this is what it takes to keep an airline in business, thanks but no. Leisure travel was never risk free. Remember the cheap seats on the Titanic.

Last I saw I think I had a packet with Bert Flood imports on it. But that was nearly 10 years ago. try this:

What is this "DVD" sorcery?

Thomas Cook in particular came into question over its late and poorly executed digital transformation. It wasn't the package holidays they were selling as much as the desire by the client to move away from bricks-and-mortar trade to a web presence. This meant a lot fewer travel agents (who knew the package holidays well) and a lot more "men in grey cardigans". I doubt TC senior management were capable of the change in thinking required to survive. On the other hand ... [one airline with a frequent flyer program] Is in its fifth year of a project to deliver discretionary pricing on airfares. That means two people can go to the booking website and if [airline] figures out who one person is, the price will be adjusted to take advantage of their known preferences. The other person will get a different airfare. The longer they browse the more likely the airfares are to be adjusted up. I'm not 100% certain all of the features are turned on yet but it was designed to be very powerful and dynamic. The yield management component used by AA and United is just one feature. They adjust fares in real time as people make enquiries about city pairs ... For example once the teams in the Super Bowl are known. Budget airlines just don't have the money for these sorts of things, or access to the more profitable city pairs. In th case of TC, they never made a return on the cost of their back end system transformation

Coulson owned Lockheed water bomber seems to be a regular visitor to Canberra in November and December 2019. Bigger than the stumpy four and longer than a regular C-130. more orange too

http://www.australianflying.com.au/latest/senate-to-launch-two-year-inquiry-into-casa-and-ga should be be interesting to see if the government votes to draw a thick line under the history of CASA once the truth is laid bare

http://www.australianflying.com.au/latest/raaus-responds-to-airventure-australia-over-funding-decision

It works fine, until it doesn't. Then I fix it and it works fine again. There is no "problem"

Does it really matter? Young people fall in love and breed because that is what young people do. Economies are built on this fact. An earlier AvWeb article... https://www.avweb.com/insider/ash-scattering-done-right/

No idea other than its a CV carburettor. Probably Mikuni. The float tang isn't adjustable

I've got a motorcycle that wears out main jets by flogging the chrome off the needle in one spot. I'm on my third set now. They are cheap and easy to replace. the symptoms I see is a marginally increased consumption but it runs like a goat at mid throttle and runs super rough at carpark speeds

https://www.avweb.com/insider/on-ash-scattering/

This link below from 2018, apparently some residents prefer to sleep at night: http://www.noaircraftnoise.org.au/index.asp?pagename=Sydney+Airport+Curfew Its interesting to note that the review of the restriction and curfew was supposed to happen this year and so far, it hasn't. The (glorified residents action group) noted that while the new planes are quieter, they are still quite noisy. Having been subjected to a 777 flying over my head most mornings, with its wheels and things dangling down I think that is a fair statement. That is to say a two aisle plane that is landing still makes a lot of noise. I don't mind the noise and I'm quite used to it. Having grown up under the flight path of Boeing 727s, Fokker Friendships, DC-9s and a bunch of other JT-8 equipped thingies I can say you can keep the kerosene soot. That stuff is nasty. But really, since the last review what has changed?

https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/company-news/business-community-calls-to-lift-restrictions-on-sydney-airport Ok sure. What has recently changed to make the lifting of the restriction more likely this time? Does this influence the current stance on the dreaded curfew?

These are not the tornados you are looking for...

Definitely talk to a GA instructor on this. I am not one. In my opinion, an RPL with a navigation endorsement is basically a PPL with an initial medical exam. The flight crew radio licence carries over and that would be about it. While it will be easy to do all the navigating, the RPL pilot still needs to show how to use everything in the cockpit which may include a VOR/NAV receiver, ADF and transponder. Then there is ADIZ procedures, CTA and CTR which an RPC typically won't cover. The RPL needs to do the English language proficiency exam which is $190 worth of time you won't get back

If it is a Sportstar, thank goodness it's mostly metal. If if my roofing plumber is anything to go by, people will be finding bits of the frame in the soil for years ... now imagine if that was a pile of carbon fibre

...not even close to the biggest. The contracts were well written but not well enforced. Federal airports corporation arranged management of individual aerodromes under multiple ALOP deeds of contract. Then FAC disappeared. So who was left to monitor that the contracts were adhered to? Archerfield and Essendon are prime examples. Camden and Bankstown I know nothing about but I'm guessing some of the shenanigans are against many clauses of the original deeds. Have a read of this document as just one example https://www.pc.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/234158/sub081-airports.pdf

http://www.australianflying.com.au/the-last-minute-hitch/the-last-minute-hitch-15-november-2019

Local instructors where I am are either semi-retired or flat out busy. One works weekends only but he is a long haul pilot so he could be away for long periods. When the un-flyable weather comes, a log-jam of people trying to catch up on missed lessons is what follows. I wanted to do casual lessons recently and it was a three week wait. It could have been a lot longer. Christmas is coming up so instructors will most likely go on holidays for a bit. Plus it's very hot and very bumpy over Christmas typically. This isn't a criticism, it's an opportunity. The work is there but not advertised and pilots who hope to do the work in an expectation of moving up to bigger hardware typically need to bring a lot more to the job than they will ever get paid for. The company owners know an hour in a new pilots log book is worth a lot more to the pilot than they will pay the pilot and act accordingly. It doesn't stink, it's the free market in operation (till the market doesn't operate) There are plenty of places where you can fly a light twin or something like a C206. It's just that none of them are within a day's drive of decent coffee (plus a bunch of other unattractive stuff about those jobs) Most of the C208s used for skydiving on the east coast are owned by the same company. I think someone is chucking meat bombs out of a Bandierante somewhere near Canberra. Crop dusting pilots are all getting old and crusty but the work is seasonal. Glider towing might suit. Over on PPRUNE there are many examples of people moaning about loading up on debt then getting paid less than a living wage for commercial flying. At the same time there are loads more chucking poo at the moaners for comparing their remuneration to that of a roadside worker. So be it. Rex aren't the only show in town. I just wish airline owners stopped acting like they were all a monopoly. AIPA went head to head with QANTAS which resulted in a company lockout. Virgin said "Hey cool, come work with us if you are that unhappy. We pay a LOT less than QANTAS and our pilots aren't complaining" Is this where it's heading?

http://www.australianflying.com.au/latest/rex-to-search-overseas-for-pilots-and-instructors ...sounds like nobody learned from what QANTAS went through in August 2008. Skills shortage Visa laws and lists haven't changed since then. Before @fly_tornado chimes in about having mates in the right places, this is John Sharp we are talking about. You don't get more well connected than that

I struggled a bit to identify why this story gave me such a is visceral reaction. Then I realised the policy didn't already exist and that is what got to me. Ahh, the smell of vested interests!

A Boeing engineer named Mark Forkner was alleged to have intimate knowledge of the decisions made regarding MCAS. In early September 2019 he refused to hand over relevant documents or testify, citing his fifth amendment rights. Someone knows the answers

... which CASA will also ignore http://www.australianflying.com.au/latest/federal-government-to-develop-regional-aviation-policy